If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.